Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] think [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I had to make all these er computations out and er I made fifty that I thought nobody could pick . |
| 2 | She even told Sybil that the frog in the school pond was enchanted , and poor Sybil was in such a state that I thought someone ought to teach Mildred a lesson . ‘ |
| 3 | erm , erm but erm apart from that I think everything is er |
| 4 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
| 5 | Erm the reasons that we were er anxious about this allocation to Harrogate erm stemmed from the point that I think somebody should make on this occasion and that is that it does seem there are two local authorities within North Yorkshire that have particularly distinguished er issues to deal with on employment . |
| 6 | I do n't think I need to repeat that I think everyone can hear the questions er |
| 7 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 8 | But they are not better pattern selective elements , so I think one can conclude that the orientational selectivity of cortical neurons is not what makes it the organ of civilisation . |
| 9 | I had long hair , then my mum cut it off and it was really short , so I think everyone thought I was a boy anyway . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never bothered much about Blanche 's Prowler and that sort of thing — it did n't seem to matter who it was , only that she thought something existed — but you 've stirred something up — ’ |
| 11 | It was a sign that she thought something was funny . ’ |
| 12 | Hey Nance , Nance , Nance , Nance , you know you were telling me that you thought someone had died at work ? |
| 13 | ‘ A principle I have always applied in the property business is that you put in a bid that you think something is worth , and you do n't go above it . ’ |
| 14 | If you believed everything you 've ever read about desktop publishing it 's quite possible that you think anyone who can use a computer can turn out professional looking material with consummate ease . |
| 15 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 16 | It is recorded that on 4 January 1965 ‘ Mr R J Henderson said that he thought something should be done to start a Building Fund . ’ |
| 17 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |
| 18 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 19 | Sid was keeping a close eye on Mr Didier ; not that he thought anyone would try to poison him , but you never knew , when the likes of Peckham were around . |
| 20 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 21 | I went in there and I thought something was burning . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm basically a loner in a collaborative field , and I thought everything was possible , ’ says Newley . |
| 23 | He sighed , ‘ Maria Luisa had spoken to Fernando and you were together at the Casa Pinar and I thought everything was hunky-dory — ’ |
| 24 | And I thought somebody 's at the door . |
| 25 | Very briefly Chair , to say I think nothing 's perfect , as I said , I mean there are areas that still need to be improved , and I think our , the image and in a sense our marketing section does need to be improved , and I think no-one would deny that . |
| 26 | Then I think I read some of my favourite English poems — Hardy , Hopkins , Housman , Blake , Yeats , Edward Thomas , Wilfred Owen , and I think one each by Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn , the only contemporaries I could stand at that time . |
| 27 | But no , and I think one could assume , and indeed expect , that they 'll now stay that way . |
| 28 | And I think one might go on to argue that far from saving labour it creates it — that its function is to give one the task of understanding it . |
| 29 | Erm , I would have to say that 's going to be in the range of five hundred to six hundred , and very much depends to some extent on what happens in the winter months , and I 'm sorry to keep stressing this point , but we have n't yet got twelve months ' experience of operating this particular change , and until we 've got at least a year 's experience , and I think one would have to say , that some of the figures need to be portioned , but equally , you ca n't afford to be too cavalier in terms of your assumptions about that demand might reduce to , and I 'll touch a little later on how you control expenditure in those terms . |
| 30 | Chairman , Chairman , I think that 's an excellent idea and I think one to erm , prove ways of cost saving is to involve erm , more nursery education , because one sum spent before five , it apparently costs six pounds or its equivalent . |